Ábalos + Sentkiewicz   Spain   The result of a competition won in 2006, the intermodal station of Logroño was part of a much larger urban plan to bury the railway line as it traversed the capital of La Rioja region, and which also involved creating a large linear park and five res

Foster + Partners   China   The firm of Norman Foster has won the competition to design Guangming Hub, a transport-oriented development on the high-speed rail link that connects Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou, with three new metro lines incorporated. The latest technologi

Zaha Hadid Architects Esplan   Estonia   A design drawn up by the British firm Zaha Hadid Architects – in collaboration with the Estonian practice Esplan – has been awarded first prize in the competition for Rail Baltic’s new terminal in Ülemiste, a subdistrict of the country’s capital. The

Barozzi Veiga   Switzerland   Composed of a main building and two complementary ones, the project intends to define a new public space within a currently disused railway area, becoming an inhabited wall that serves as a neutral backdrop for urban life. The wall of the original bu

EM2N Architekten   The sheer dimensions of this hangar located in the railway hub of Zurich-Herdern will allow the maintenance of intercity trains of the Swiss train network. It rises two floor heights and stretches 400 meters. The function of the railway facility dete

Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos   Spain   Going back to structures, but in large-scale works like Santa Justa, how did you conceive them? —Santa Justa is a turning point in our career because it involved a huge change of scale. We never wish to give structure too much presence, or let it imp

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   Like many railway stations which used to be part of the urban periphery, the Basel station has been engulfed by the city’s growth, giving rise to unresolved encounters between different building structures. As part of the rezoning project aimed at in

Herzog & de Meuron   Switzerland   As part of the rezoning plan for the area of land surrounding Basel station, a new signal box has been built to provide a highly automated system of point switching. The compact tower form is largely determined by its functions and positioning; this

Rafael Moneo   Spain   The determination of the Spanish Ministry of Transportation to carry out a total overhauling of the old Atocha Station and quadruple its capacity, and the proposal put forward by City Hall in the Master Plan to free the Glorieta de Carlos V from the

The firm led by the British architect Norman Foster has been selected to design Guangming Hub, a high-density urban development linked to the railway that runs through Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou. Following the model known as TOD (transit-orie

Adif has publicly named the teams selected to go on to phase two of the competition to transform the Madrid–Chamartín station: UNStudio with b720; RSHP with Luis Vidal; Souto de Moura with Francisco Mangado and José María Ezquiaga; Grimshaw with Carl